The cracker sandwich

Behold my triumph?

hahaha

It was tiny and tasty.

My real problem was, as expected, the wheat.

This sandwich was: one cherry tomato roasted with chive, one tiny lettuce leaf, one pickled onion and pickled cucumber, a small number of roasted sunflowers in sunflower oil and a splash of apple scrap vinegar. The whole thing on a tiny cracker of whole wheat.

My sunflowers didn't work (squirrels). My friend Mariam gave me some of hers because she is a wonderful person!

The flowers must have been purple because I stained my fingers the best color seeding them.

I got out my lovely aged apple scrap vinegar. Above you can see the cracker.

I roasted and crushed a few seeds.

For the wheat...

I gathered up what I had which was about two big handfuls.

I broke it up in a cereal bowl and tossed the straw bits.

I blew on it to remove the chaff. It was so light. It immediately blew right into my face.

I took it outside and covered the deck in light wispy chaff. This left me with a pitiful few spoonful's of wheatberry. 

I think I left it too long and some of them must have already dropped to the ground.

I put the wheatberries into my herb dedicated coffee grinder.

After about a minute i was left with flour and more chaff.

I strained that through a tea strainer and wound up with a miniscule but quite tasty bit of wheat flour.

I will keep harvesting what I've got over the fall and hopefully try again with the bread in the sporing.

I wish I'd gotten to bake bread with it. I added a little water but didnt bother with my sourdough starter because it was so small.

I baked it at 375 for a few minutes and then took it out and that was that.

It was a fun project. I still need to work on cheese as I never got that working.

I still want to grow and try more cereals to see how that goes.

It wasn't much of a sandwich but it was fun and tasty and I learned things.